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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health challenges have indeed adversely impacted more younger people than people 25 and older.

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Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. Then, IQVIA evaluated the universe of about 40,000 apps available in the iTunes store.

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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Health Populi

One in four people would consider online options as their first-line to evaluating personal health issues — a kind of “digital step therapy,” if you will. The post The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

consumers), followed by exercise, sleep, weight, nutrition, and then new things like medication, mental health, mood, meditation, and blood sugar all attracting at least 1 in 5 new health tracking people. Mental health nearly doubling to 25%. consumers likely to use an FDA-approved health tracking tool.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

during the public health crisis. Alcohol use among consumers grew moderately for 54% of people, with another 17% confessing to a significant increase — net, that’s 71% of consumers using alcohol more during the pandemic. The Atlantic offered this take this week].

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COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

Health Populi

and intriguingly, “Health care professionals seem most excited about adopting consumer technologies that we already use.” ” “Clinicians have this combined feeling of being overwhelmed by current technology and feeling those systems aren’t doing enough to help them care for patients.”